If, as we say, our rights, in the Bill of Rights, are God given rights, which they are, how can our rights be amended, although it is a tough process, if they are God given rights? Only God should be able to give them, take them away or change them, not Congress/States, through an amendment process.If our rights can be amended/taken away by Congress and the States, then they are not God given rights at all.
I doubt this is the whole and complete answer to your questions, Ez2BRepub, but here's a thought you may find of interest, (from a lifelong atheist, no less.)
Are we talking about rights themselves, or our current understanding of them?
The founding fathers, for example, didn't define rights: didn't say specifically what they are and are not, nor did they include a right of privacy, nor a right to travel, nor a right to communicate, nor even a right to property. Why not? I have a hunch the didn't define rights because it was unimaginable to them those could ever be questioned. Everyone knew what rights are; likewise, everyone knew what the word "is" meant. I believe they assumed the rights to privacy and property were unquestionable.
I sincerely hope we'll add those and other rights to an extended Bill of Rights after the restoration of our constitutional republic. I doubt we'll be changing our rights themselves, but our perception or understanding of them.
Yea? Nay?
If the Founding Fathers did not define rights, then why is it called the Bill of Rights? The Bill of Rights serves to protect the natural rights of Liberty and Property. They guarantee a number of personal freedoms by limiting the power of the Gov’t.
I guess what I am trying to reconcile is, that right now, on one hand, because of the Bill of Rights, the Congress does not have the power to infringe/amend/eliminate, etc., any of those rights, like they are trying to do in the Senate/House right now. But with the Congress and enough States the Bill of Rights can be infringed/amended/eliminated, etc.
It seems to me the Founding Fathers contradicted themselves by not allowing the Congress, alone, to change them but the Congress and enough States to do so.